A Great Leader: Nelson Mandela, Part Two: Pluses & Minuses

In the post below, I have given you information on Nelson Mandela. Now, I will be giving a post on Mandela's 'plus' points and his 'minus' points as well.

To begin, I will start with his positive points. As all of you should know, racist issues have been strewned and scattered out amongst world history, and countless innocent lives have been taken away due to those who can only see violence and death as an end to all problems. Thankfully, we have righteous people like Nelson Mandela. Mandela could see that peace could solve everything, not sole violence. By standing up for racial equality, Mandela went to prison. Therefore, it could be said that Mandela sacrificed his freedom for the better good of people's lives, and to make an attempt to end racism. Of course, racism is not totally extinguished, but Mandela's justful efforts have definitely made some-sort of a significant contribution to the battle against racial discrimination.

Being only human, Mandela also has his negative points. A major fault in his campaign for racial equaltiy and the end of aparthied activity was contradiction: He resorted to violence in an attempt to turn things around. When fighting for peace, why use violence? Maybe it was because he was desperate? Or did he feel obliged? Whatever the reason, the Nelson Mandela then unfortunately forgot the fact that he should be standing up for his own beliefs throughout, like the Nelson Mandela he is now. In this case, his belief was peace and his mistake was violence.

Despite Mandela's fault as mentioned above, his peace-loving vision outweights the mistake by a few thousand times. I look up to Mandela because he is one leader that strives to do what is right. And despite facing major obstacles in his life like prison, which took away 18 years of freedom, he never did give up and because of his sheer determination and perseverence, became the succesful leader that he is today. He is one great leader in my opinion and I hope to learn from his example.

I'm sure as Mr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela looks back on his life, he'll think the 40+ years of struggle and hardship was really worth it in the end.